Ring of Seven [Online Version]

Chen Hao picked up the map and pointed it at the light. He said, "Although the map has come out, it can't be compared with the modern map. We don't know how to get there. What's the meaning of the place on it?"

Everyone turned their attention to the black triangle on the far side that Chen Hao pointed to. On the side, Chen Hao marked the simplified Chinese with annotations, which said Yin and Yang Dao.

Zhou Jue asked, "What does this mean?"

Chen Hao said: "I'm not very clear, I just translated the teacher's text, but you see, this black triangle seems to be only half, where is the other half? I don't think this is a complete map."

Fat San couldn't help sighing and said: "After a long time, this is not a complete map... Then what should we do?"

Zhou Jue endured the disappointment in his heart. He stared at the map in Chen Hao's hand for a long time, and suddenly he remembered the concept of the tomb of yin and yang twins that Ye Wei said yesterday. There are hints."

The thin monkey said: "Indeed, if we don't read the book anymore, we may not be able to guarantee the same progress as the book."

Fat San hurriedly said: "Then what are you waiting for? Don't you feel uncomfortable? If you don't look at it, I will go crazy."

Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao, Chen Hao nodded and silently opened the book...

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Lin Xu looked back at Cuiniang. Cuiniang was covered in blood, and she didn't know if she was injured. When Lin Xu wanted to speak, Cuiniang immediately blocked him with her hand and shook her head.They can't seem to speak.

At this time, Lin Xu heard another loud noise, like a rock cracking, Cuiniang immediately covered her ears, and Feng Luxi and Kui Liu who were pushing the stele also stood up straight and did not move anymore.Beating his hands like a lifeless zombie.

Lin Xu raised his head and looked at the sky. At this time, there was light snow falling from the sky again. They didn't dare to act rashly. They could only observe the movement around them under the ice and snow, but there was nothing else except the loud noise. Lin Xu felt Cui Niang's heavy breathing, and she stared at the stone engraved with "Yin Army Feathers". For some reason, the stone started to rotate automatically without any human push. , like a stone mill making a rolling sound.

Suddenly they felt that the ground under their feet began to shake slightly, Cui Niang couldn't help it anymore, she frowned and said, "Get out of here!"

As soon as she opened her mouth, Lin Xu found something suddenly sprang out from the woods and jumped on Cui Niang. Cui Niang staggered and quickly hooked her back with her hands, but she was too flustered to use any strength at all. .Lin Xu hurried up to help, he was surprised to find that there was a dead villager lying on Cuiniang's back, those corpses that were still lying in the village, the dead villager hugged Cuiniang like a baby Back, the expression is still smiling, such a smile makes people creepy.Before Lin Xu could think about how they could move by themselves, the beggar lifted the corpse behind Cuiniang, and the corpse fell to the ground hard. It was hard to imagine how it moved as fast as before.

Beggar moved his chin, motioning everyone to leave quickly, Liu Fei pointed to the two people who were still sticking to the stone, asking them what to do.Beggar's eyes flickered to hesitate, she couldn't leave Kui Liuye alone, but because of that moment of hesitation, the rock that was still moving suddenly stopped moving, and then they felt the ground suddenly lay down, and the few of them Together with the corpse beside it, Feng Luxi and Kui Liuye, they all fell into the gap, without even having time to think.

Fortunately, Liu Fei and Qi'er hit their respective meteor hammers at the most critical moment, but unfortunately only Liu Fei hit it, and Qi'er had no choice but to use his meteor hammer to hook Liu Fei's chain.Before Liu Fei had time to scold, Lin Xu grabbed him by the shoulders, and then took Cui Niang along with him. Suddenly, he ate all the weight of the four of them by himself, and he couldn't even use the strength to scold her.

Lin Xu quickly shouted: "Liu Fei, don't let go!"

Liu Fei gritted his teeth and glared at him with resentment, but he couldn't speak. Lin Xu looked at the bottomless cave. Kui Liuye and Feng Luxi had disappeared, and he didn't know their lives or deaths. He looked at the people below with concern. The two women, but they are not considered Xiaojiabiyu's women, so apart from a little panic, everything else is fine, but Liu Fei has no idea how long such a rope can last.He adjusted his posture, relying on his own muscles and sense of balance to make his center upward, he shouted to Lin Xu: "Don't put all your strength on me, I won't be able to hold back!"

Lin Xu looked down at Cuiniang, he also wanted to try to grab the chain, but as long as he moved Cuiniang below, he would easily fall down: "Don't move, Cuiniang is in danger!"

Liu Fei's forehead was covered with sweat, and his body kept sliding down. He cursed in a low voice: "Damn, I can't hold on for long. Can you see if I can borrow some strength?"

But the beggar stopped them and said: "Liu Zi, don't talk, you listen?"

Liu Fei held his breath and pricked up his ears. He had already practiced lightness kung fu, so soon he heard a faint cry from below, which sounded like Feng Luxi's cry. Liu Fei's eyes widened: "He's not dead, Then the estimate below will not be very high.”

The beggar looked up, and then said: "I'll jump down and have a look first, don't come down, protect sister Cui."

Before Liu Fei had time to stop him, the beggar jumped off with a swallow piercing the moon.Everyone looked down nervously, and soon the beggar said: "Liu Zi jumped down, there is something below!"

After hearing this, Liu Fei nodded to Lin Xu and Cuiniang and said, "Then let's go down." The three of them nodded at the same time and jumped into the cave. To everyone's surprise, the space below is very open, and it is a large flat ground, so the voices of the people speak echo.

Cuiniang asked Lin Xu, "Brother Lin, do you have a booklet? Let's take a look first."

Lin Xu took out the fire pocket and lit a little light. He found that this place was actually an underground village. Through the light, he could vaguely see the surrounding houses, but there were no trees, only stones.

The beggar shouted anxiously at them: "Come here, godfather is injured!"

The three hurriedly ran towards the sound of the beggar, and found Feng Luxi huddled between the two stones and sighed, but it seemed that there was nothing serious, but Kui Liuye was very bad, when he fell, he fell directly on one of the stones On the sharp boulder, there was already a bloodstain on the right shoulder.It was also thanks to Kui Liuye's toughness that he held back such pain and didn't cry out.

The beggar anxiously took out the medicine powder from his bag and gave it to Kui Liuye, but there was no bandage. Lin Xu immediately said, "I have rescue medicine here, let Liu Ye stop the bleeding first."

Master Kui Liu raised his head and looked at Lin Xu in pain. He nodded and motioned for him to bandage him. Lin Xu carefully dragged off the clothes of Master Kui Liu. His injury was more serious than he imagined. It may be fatal, now... Lin Xu didn't dare to think too much, and quickly lowered his head to bandage Kui Liuye, trying to tie the bandage as firmly as possible. Kui Liu let out a breath, and he smiled: "I didn't expect that Kui Lao Liu would kill so much!" Many people will die today in this place where the birds don't shit. Haha, damn it, retribution."

Beggar held back tears and said: "Godfather, you will be fine, I will rescue you out."

Mr. Kui Liu waved his hand, he propped himself up, looked around but no one could replace him to continue, he said, "Where is the blind man's board?"

The beggar said, "I have two yuan with me."

Kui Liuye took out his own piece, and at that moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew all around, and the quiet underground village seemed lifeless like the underworld, with gusts of cold wind permeating it.But they clearly felt that there was something watching them in the depths of darkness.

Kui Liu quickly stuffed the clay tablet back into his clothes, looked up and asked, "What is this place?"

Qi'er shook his head and said, "Qi'er doesn't know, but it should be under that village. And it's strange that there are stones everywhere, and there are things carved on the stones, but I can't understand them."

Kui Liuye suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, he coughed and said, "Ahem, if blind man Mao is still alive, he might know what this place is, but it's a pity..."

The beggar bit his lip and lowered his head. Master Kui Liu looked at Lin Xu and said, "Who is this brother?"

Lin Xu clasped his fists and said, "I am a military doctor named Lin Xu. Brother Hu entrusted me to bring a bag of things with me here."

Kui Liuye's eyes darkened, and he said, "Huzi...he..."

Lin Xu lowered his head, Cui Niang couldn't help crying secretly, Liu Fei said when he saw this, "Lin Xu joined us instead of Brother Hu, but now one of us already has two boards, this..."

Master Kui Liu endured the pain and asked the beggar to help him stand up. His bloodshot eyes looked around like a wolf, and he said: "Maybe Hu Zi guessed wrong, maybe it's because he didn't want any of us Run alone and get rid of your companions, this place is weird, like a village, but there is no trace of popularity."

Qi'er frowned slightly, but did not speak. Lin Xu noticed her strange expression and asked, "Miss Qi'er, do you have anything to say?"

Beggar said: "I just feel that the things following me are more obvious. It seems that there were only one thing before, but now there are two things."

Liu Fei said, "Could it be because you have two boards on your body?"

The beggar shook his head and looked at Master Kui Liu, who held his wound a little helplessly, and said, "But now Huzi is gone, and we don't know where Guo Pu's tomb is. The blind man is dead too, now we are at the end of our mountain!"

At this moment, Cuiniang said, "I know."

Kui Liuye looked at Cuiniang, he looked at Cuiniang, but Cuiniang looked very calm with a cold face, it didn't seem like she said something impulsively.It's just that her eyes at this moment are very strange, and there is a slight difference from the stubborn and kind girl before.

Cuiniang said lightly: "Brother Hu said, if something happens to him, I will take you to Guo Pu's tomb. During the period, my words are his words, and everyone must obey my arrangement."

Liu Fei asked unconvinced: "Then why didn't you tell us earlier?"

Cuiniang shook her head with a sigh and said, "Brother Hu said we must wait for all of us to arrive here before we can speak. Otherwise, we have no way to go."

Liu Fei and Lin Xu supported Kui Liuye, Cui Niang squatted on the ground, she looked up at the faint light and said, "Brother Huzi also said that there is such a place, he said that it happened to be the Princess Tomb and Guo Pu At the junction of the tomb, the road between Yin and Yang, the road between Yin and Yang, the road between life and death is boundless, desolate, desolate, heartbroken with love all one's life... People who used to be here in the past have now become ghosts."

Lin Xu looked at Cuiniang, and suddenly felt that she seemed to be a different person. At least Cuiniang would not recite poems against her. She looked at Lin Xu mournfully, and Lin Xu's heart tightened, as if something had been taken away. land.

Beggar looked at Cuiniang's strange behavior, and she tentatively asked, "Sister Cui, where is this?"

Cuiniang looked at her with a pale face, Qi'er felt that Cuiniang looked like another person for a while, but it was indeed Cuiniang's face.Cuiniang said: "This is the way of Yin and Yang."

Liu Fei asked, "What is Yin-Yang Dao?"

Cuiniang said: "This place was originally a crack created by a ground cow turning over. Later, an expert built such a village in the ground. This village lived with a group of strange people. Some of these people were not breathing. They are no different from the dead, they don’t need air, and there is also a group of alchemists, each with unique skills, usually this crack is closed. They only come out when offering sacrifices, so the living people above regard them as ghosts. soldiers. And those alchemists have become ghosts and gods among the local population.”

Liu Fei asked: "It's strange, then why are you pretending not to know, followed us by surprise."

Cuiniang said still with no expression on her face: "Brother Huzi said, I must wait until all of you are here before I can say it."

Cuiniang stood up, looked around and said: "Originally this is the place where alchemists practice, and it is a paradise on earth isolated from the world. Unfortunately... the court finally found out, and all the half-dead people here were arrested. All the alchemists who studied and practiced here were also killed, and all the secret books of alchemists were burned. When the alchemists were killed, they cast a poisonous curse on it, so that the local informers would sacrifice and burn incense for them every year, as if they were their own. Relatives are slaughtered, and if they are forgotten, they will die every year until they become a dead village. In fact, it is not a poisonous oath, but a kind of resentment towards death."

Kui Liuye said: "Then you mean that Hu Zi knew this place existed in the first place, and this is the place he wanted to bring us here?"

Cuiniang turned her head to look at him and nodded, "That's right, Brother Huzi is going to bring you here, and now we are all here."

Liu Fei snorted coldly and said, "What the hell, isn't your Huzi brother and Mao blind both dead? What kind of thing is this?"

Cuiniang's eyes were still intact, and she said: "As long as we take all the clay tablets on the seven-star copper pillars with us. Without those copper pillars, we can't open the last mechanism in Guo Pu's tomb."

Liu Fei wanted to argue with her, but was stopped by the beggar. She approached Liu Fei and said, "Liu Zi, something is wrong, this sister Cui is too weird..."

Liu Fei was startled, he looked at Cuiniang, Cuiniang walked back and forth along the stone, as if looking for something, suddenly Feng Luxi, who was silent at the side, yelled, "Ghost! There is a ghost!"

Beggar looked around vigilantly, suddenly she realized something, and said in a low voice: "No, the corpse that fell down with us in front is gone!"

Feng Luxi rushed towards Cuiniang as if out of control, grabbed Cuiniang by the neck, and said: "You are a ghost! You are a ghost!"

After all, Cuiniang was a woman, and she stretched out her hand to Lin Xu in pain for help. Seeing this, Lin Xu rushed forward and knocked Feng Luxi down with a punch. Feng Luxi wanted to rush forward again but was restrained by Liu Fei.Feng Luxi's eyes turned red, he pointed to Cuiniang and said, "She's a ghost, she's a ghost...I should have found out long ago!"

Liu Fei held Feng Luxi back, Feng Luxi turned his head and looked at Liu Fei and said, "You don't believe me? I tell you that Cui Niang was actually dead in that grave. Why did she come back? She was simply killed by the owner of the tomb." Possessed!"

Cuiniang looked at Feng Luxi with a cold face, and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? If you don't believe me, then you won't be able to find 1 of Guo Pu's tombs, and you will really die by then."

Feng Luxi still wanted to shout, but at this time Master Kui Liu yelled: "Stop making noise! ​​Miss Cuiniang, since you said you know, please lead the way and tell us what's going on."

Cuiniang nodded, and she said, "I know."

Feng Luxi squatted down clutching his hair in pain, Liu Fei patted him on the shoulder helplessly to indicate that he could do nothing.But at this time Lin Xu grabbed Cuiniang's arm, and he looked at Cuiniang with a frown. Painful and helpless.That kind of pain was like the first time she had to handle Huzi's body with her own hands.

He let go of Cuiniang's arm, and said, "Let's go, we trust you."

Cui Niang stiffly withdrew a smile, which was the first expression on her face after she came to this underground village.

The beggar supported Kui Liuye and said, "We have to be careful with that corpse."

Beggar tried a color on Lin Xu, and then said in spoken words that Cui Niang began to look like a different person after the corpse rushed over.

Lin Xu nodded, and Liu Fei asked, "By the way, beggars, how did you find Cuiniang?"

The beggar said: "It's a long story, in short, we not only lost the blind man this time, but also the godfather... I didn't know that you had arrived until I found Cui Niang who came to look for you."

Cuiniang waved her hand to signal them not to speak, everyone held their breath, and under the weak light they seemed to hear the cry of a child deep in the village.

Liu Fei said quietly: "How could there be children."

Cui Niang listened to the cry, she moved her mouth as if she was muttering something, but did not make a sound, Lin Xu noticed that Cui Niang was actually crying, she listened to the cry with tears, and then She turned her head and said to everyone: "Leave here first, let this place stay underground forever, as for those flying corpses, they are actually dead corpses activated by the dual energy of yin and yang, as long as this twin energy Let those bodies rest in peace when it's over."

The beggar said, "Sister Cui, didn't you say they were cursed?"

Cuiniang nodded and said, "Yes, so they still have to continue worshiping, here...there is too much blood..."

After finishing speaking, she said as if she had made up her mind: "Okay, let's go to the ancestral hall of this underground village first. We have to worship the owner here, otherwise we can't leave this place."

Feng Luxi said viciously: "You can't go there! This woman can't be trusted!"

Liu Feiyang said: "Then what should we do? We have no other way to go, you take us to Guo Pu's tomb?"

Feng Luxi shook his head in frustration. He said, "Aren't you afraid that she will harm us! Is she the same as that little girl back then? Your heads were kicked by donkeys?"

Liu Feifei kicked it directly, Feng Luxi was kicked and turned over, coughing in pain, Liu Fei said coldly: "I tell you, you have to go, if you don't go, hand over the board, since Without you, as long as you have a board, you can go, so I don’t care whether you live or die!"

Feng Luxi looked at him fiercely, Lin Xu raised his hand to stop Liu Fei and said, "Okay, let's leave first."

Cui Niang walked into the village full of stones, and besides the stones, there were also fragments of earthen pots around. There was a very forbidden atmosphere here, and she was very familiar with it, so she walked forward without any doubt.

Lin Xu found that the houses here are very old, probably earlier than the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In some places, there are still green bricks with lotus patterns from the Han Dynasty. The walls and roofs of many houses have disappeared. It is likely that it was only thatch at the beginning, and it has decayed into ashes over the years.But it is very neat and tidy. If it is restored to its original state, it may really be like a peach blossom garden.

After passing through the neat rows of thatched huts, they felt gusts of wind blowing and a sour smell like vinegar. They didn't know what was ahead.Cuiniang signaled them not to stop, but to keep going.

When they walked to the end, they came to a place like a stalactite cave, and the sound of water droplets could be heard vaguely. In the depth of the cave, there was a square altar made of green and white jade and stones. It needs to be studied a lot, but the damage is very serious. The huge bluestone slab altar was smashed into three pieces, and the stone roof almost collapsed in half.Opposite the altar is a huge natural stone wall, in which there are shining mica ore, which looks very dreamy.In front of them is a large black sand beach. It is not known where the sand came from, and the geology is very different from here.It seemed very abrupt.

Liu Fei pointed to the stone wall and said, "Look, there are paintings on it!"

The beggar raised the torch to light up the stone wall a little. On it, one can indeed see the totem painted with ocher, which is the worship picture of the immortals in the sky, covering everything and almost everything.In the picture, human beings are only a very small part, almost at the same level as those animals. The murals exaggerate the status of the fairy world too much, and there seems to be no difference between humans and animals.

Cuiniang knelt down towards the rock wall, kowtowed three times cautiously, and then said to the others, "Kneel down."

Several people were hesitant to follow suit. At the moment when Lin Xu bowed his head and knelt down, the sand on the ground was a bit strange. He rubbed it in his hand and found that it was actually the corpse of an insect, which shattered into powder.

Beggar also noticed the difference in the sand. She frowned but still knelt down. As soon as she knelt down, she felt that there were still some insects that were not dead. Suddenly she felt that several insects had climbed up on her knees, but Cui Niang Shaking his head, he said, "Don't worry about them, they're just ordinary cicadas."

Qi'er endured the itching and numbness of his knees and gritted his teeth without moving. Liu Fei and others saw that even a woman like Qi'er was so stubborn, so they also knelt down on the sand full of bugs, and slammed into the sand. Knocked his head hard three times.After kowtowing, he looked at Feng Luxi: "It's your turn."

Feng Luxi swears, but he does as he says. Although the insects are so dense that it makes one's scalp itchy at first glance, as Cuiniang said, they don't bite. They just crawl around on their knees, gently The ground load fell to the ground.Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the beggar helped Kui Liuye to make him kneel down too, but Kui Liuye didn't move, he looked at the worms with pale faces, and whispered: "Could it be God's will..."

"Godfather, what did you say?"

Master Kui Liu shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I just thought of the past."

The beggar smiled and said, "Godfather, it's okay, let's go through the big wind and waves, and I will continue to fight devils with you when I get out."

Master Kui Liu patted the beggar's head with a dazed look, and said, "You look more and more like your mother." But soon he stopped talking, pushed the beggar away and knelt down, but just became the beggar. When the sixth master was about to kneel down, the insects suddenly dispersed as if they were frightened. Before everyone could react, the insects gathered very quickly and rushed towards the sixth master. Although the sixth master was seriously injured , but at this moment, his life was at stake, he held his breath and jumped out in the air, but he couldn't touch the wound again like the second time.

Seeing that Master Kui Liu was in great trouble, Qi'er picked up the torch and was about to burn the insects, but Cui Niang grabbed her, Qi'er's eyes showed murderous intent, and he shouted coldly: "Let go!"

Cuiniang was also a little angry, she raised her voice and said, "We can't kill the bugs here, otherwise we won't be able to get in!"

Beggar saw that Kui Liuye, who had saved her life, was in danger, she didn't care so much, she said fiercely: "If godfather dies, then I want you to be buried with him!"

Cui Niang held Qi'er's hand, and Qi'er drew out a dagger, a white light flashed Cui Niang's arm was cut bloody, but Cui Niang still didn't let go, Qi'er didn't want to kill her, but At this moment, seeing that Kui Liuye had no way to retreat, she stabbed directly at Cuiniang without hesitation.At this time, Kui Liu Ye shouted loudly: "Stop, beggar!"

The beggar was furious, Kui Liuye said: "Cui Niang, can you take them into Guo Pu's tomb! Answer me!"

Cuiniang froze for a moment, she nodded and said, "I can! But we must not harm the bugs here, I really don't know why they attack you!"

Master Kui Liu laughed while clutching his wound, he threw a pendant at the beggar, and said, "Retribution, retribution! When I killed Axiu, she said that I would be eaten by ten thousand insects, hahaha , retribution!"

Beggar's face turned pale when he took the jade pendant, and the dagger fell to the ground. She watched Master Kui Liu step back a few steps. Master Kui Liu laughed and looked at Beggar in pain, but Beggar was so pale that he couldn't say a word. In the end, only tears fell, and those bugs fell on Kui Liuye like a tide, and finally Kui Liuye fell down slowly, and at the end he could only say vaguely: "Begger... I'm sorry ..."

Then there was no more sound, and the worms still did not recede, more and more piled up, and soon they piled up like soil, and then the mound slowly shrank.

The beggar held the jade pendant in his hand and murmured, "Axiu...it's my grandma..."

Cuiniang fell beside her, unable to stand up anymore, Liu Fei asked: "What's going on? Didn't Cuiniang say that nothing will happen? Why did Liu Ye do this?"

Cuiniang didn't have the strength to answer him, she just put her hands on the ground and said: "Retribution..."

The beggar squeezed the jade pendant tightly, she hung the jade pendant around her neck and put it in her clothes, saying: "Cui Niang, let's continue on our way..."

Cuiniang looked up at Qi'er, she looked at Qi'er's face, and said sadly: "You don't call me Sister Cui...are we sisters anymore?"

Beggar lowered her head and clenched her fists, she whispered, "I don't have a sister, nor a godfather."

Lin Xu helped Cuiniang up, he said: "Don't be sad, beggar, let's find a way to get out now, let's talk about the future."

Beggar didn't speak any more, she retracted her dagger without saying a word, took one last look at the mound of dirt, and said calmly, "Is there any connection between my aunt and these bugs?"

Cuiniang said: "I don't know, but the Cui tribe has a very wide network of people, and the branches are more extensive. A large number of them merged into the Miao border and became the Miao Gu tribe, so they don't rely on sects or families to continue. Those who practice Taoism are all Li clan, although they are very hidden, this is also the reason why the Li clan is stiff and not dead."

The beggar nodded and said, "My grandma is indeed from the Miao people. Could it be that she is from the Li tribe?"

Cuiniang nodded, and she said, "Can I see your jade pendant?"

The beggar took out the jade pendant, and Cui Niang's eyes lit up when she took the jade pendant, after looking at it for a long time, she said: "Beggar takes it, maybe it can save your life."

The author has something to say: Well, I have entered the story in the book again~ This time the story has entered a very important turning point, hehe, everyone can see the important points at a glance, as for the possibility that the time difference between entering the story this time and the last time is too big I suggest that you read the chapter "The Covenant of Seven" and do a review.Maybe the story goes on...